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Shas party Chairman MK Aryeh Deri hovering over the shoulder of Israel Beiteinu party leader MK Avigdor Liberman in the Knesset. Deri is basing his entire strategy for a return to government on Liebrman.

Israel Beiteinu is denying any connection to whatever MK Deri is saying. But Aryeh Deri knows what’s at stake: the Agudah council of sages has issued an opinion this week that in cities where there is no broad agreement among local religious parties on a candidate, each voter should “follow his own teachers.” That’s very bad news for Deri who promised Liebrman the Haredi vote, signed, sealed and delivered.

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Yori Yanover has been a working journalist since age 17, before he enlisted and worked for Ba'Machane Nachal. Since then he has worked for Israel Shelanu, the US supplement of Yedioth, JCN18.com, USAJewish.com, Lubavitch News Service, Arutz 7 (as DJ on the high seas), and the Grand Street News. He has published Dancing and Crying, a colorful and intimate portrait of the last two years in the life of the late Lubavitch Rebbe, (in Hebrew), and two fun books in English: The Cabalist's Daughter: A Novel of Practical Messianic Redemption, and How Would God REALLY Vote.